scholarly journals Gendering the Pension Promise in Canada: Risk, Financial Markets and Neoliberalism

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Condon
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Pension Plan ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Legislative Changes

This article argues that retirement income provision in Canada is built on gendered assumptions, which produce material disadvantage for women. These inequalities are being exacerbated by current neoliberal trends towards the 'marketization' and individualization of pension provision, supported by tax, securities and corporate legal norms. The argument is developed using recent legislative changes to the operation of the Canada Pension Plan and recent developments in the regulation of mutual funds in Ontario as case studies. The article concludes by sketching out some possible points of departure for feminist interventions in pension privatization debates.

scholarly journals Long-Term Sustainable Investment for Retirement

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 5000
Author(s):  
Iqbal Owadally ◽  
Jean-René Mwizere ◽  
Neema Kalidas ◽  
Kalyanie Murugesu ◽  
Muhammad Kashif
Keyword(s):  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Retirement Income ◽  
Retirement Plans ◽  
Full Account ◽  
Investment Performance ◽  
Management Fees ◽  
Sustainable Investment ◽  
Managed Funds

We consider whether sustainable investment can deliver performance comparable to conventional investment in investors’ long-term retirement plans. On the capital markets, sustainable investment can be achieved through various instruments and strategies, one of them being investment in mutual funds that subscribe to ESG (environmental, social, and governance) principles. First, we compare the investment performance of ESG funds with matched conventional funds over the period 1994–2020, in Europe and the U.S. We find no significant evidence of differing performance (at 5% level) despite using a number of investment performance metrics. Second, we perform a historical backtest to model a UK personal retirement plan from 2000 till 2020, taking full account of investment management fees and transaction costs. We find that investing in an index-tracker fund overlaid with ESG screening delivers a pension which is 10.4% larger than is achieved if the index-tracker fund is used without screening. This is also 20.2% larger than is achieved by investing in a collection of actively managed funds with a sustainable purpose. We conclude that an ESG-screened long-term passive investment approach for retirement plans is likely to be successful in satisfying the twin objectives of a secure retirement income and of sustainability.

scholarly journals THE PROBLEMS OF CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER STABILITY IN THE EURO-ASIAN REGION

2018 ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
MARAT SALIKOV ◽  
SVETLANA KUZNETSOVA ◽  
ARTUR MOCHALOV
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Ethnic Relations ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Constitutional Order ◽  
Asian Region ◽  
Recent Developments

Introduction: Problems of stability of constitutional order have both theoretical and practical dimensions and touch all states. In the article, constitutional stability in the context of social changes is discussed. Methods: Doing the analysis, the authors use special methodology of legal research. In particular, a comparative-law is broadly applied as well as case studies. Analysis: In the first part of the article the authors discuss recent developments in the Russian constitutional legislation concerning electoral systems and informational technologies. In particular, the «Yarovaya Act» is criticized. In the authors’ opinion, legislation that does not meet social demands undermines constitutional stability. Frequent amendments of the Constitution and constitutional legislation (especially electoral one) do not contribute to constitutional stability as well. In the second part the authors analyze constitutional stability through the prism of inter-ethnic relations. They discuss some cases from Indian, Nigerian and Ethiopian experience. Results: The authors make a conclusion that stable constitutional order does not mean inflexible order. There should be a balance between social changes and maintenance of basic values and institutions. The constitutional order should be rigid enough for social changes not to be able to undermine the constitutional basis and trust of citizens to values, aims and principles proclaimed by the main law of the country.

scholarly journals Protection of the subsoil of the continental shelf of Ukraine by international and national instrumentalities

2021 ◽  
pp. 186-190
Author(s):  
V. V. Chumak ◽  
O. O. Khan ◽  
I. V. Bryhadyr ◽  
K. V. Kysylova
Keyword(s):  
Continental Shelf ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Method ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Foreign Companies ◽  
Legal Method ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
State Protection

Purpose. Identification of international and national mechanisms for protection of the subsoil of the continental shelf of Ukraine and provision of scientifically sound recommendations for improving the legal regulation of their application. Methodology. During the study, the dialectical method was used to learn the essence of such a phenomenon as the protection of the subsoil of the continental shelf; the system-structural method when analyzing objective and subjective features of the crime under Part 2 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; the comparative-and-legal method in the study on the sanction of Part 2 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine; the logical and dogmatic method when developing recommendations for improving legal norms. Findings. As a result of the study, mechanisms of protection of the continental shelf of Ukraine were determined. The necessity of improvement of the legislative base regulating the order of their realization is proved. Originality. The international legal and national mechanisms of state protection of the continental shelf of Ukraine are determined. In order to improve the state protection of the continental shelf, legislative changes to Part 1 of Art. 26 of the Subsoil Code of Ukraine, Part 2 of Art. 244 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine and Part 2 of Art. 216 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine are suggested. Practical value. Proposals to improve the current legislation of Ukraine are presented aimed at improving the efficiency of the State Service of Geology and Subsoil of Ukraine, the National Police, the Security Service of Ukraine and the judiciary to protect the subsoil of the continental shelf of Ukraine from illegal use by foreign companies.

scholarly journals Social and Legal Technologies in the System of Legal Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Maxim Valerevich Voronin ◽  
Igor Vladimirovich Przhilenskiy
Keyword(s):  
Main Property ◽  
Transition To Democracy ◽  
Legal Policy ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Legal Proceedings ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Social Technologies ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
Legal Technology

The article considers the problem of implementing of legal policy as a social technology. The authors compare the concepts of social and legal technology as a set of elements in achieving the goal, and also consider systematicity as the main property of these technologies. The systematic approach is presented both at the decision-making level and at the stages of its legislative execution and practical application in the process of implementing of legal norms. The implementation of legal policy led to the dynamics of legislative changes in recent years. Various state institutions have been reformed and actually reorganized to work on the basis of new principles. Moreover, the reforms of recent years are determined not only and not so much by objective ideological transformations associated with the transition to democracy, the implementation of international law, but also by a change in the technological paradigm of management and implementation of political processes. The actions of the executive and legislative branches, as well as the entire process of legal proceedings in courts of various levels, are considered in the article as unique social technologies, all of which are systemic in nature. The authors conclude that the consistency of power, social and legal technologies serves as a vehicle for political legal strategy, and also allows you to express the functionality of the main legal institutions.

INVESTIGATING MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION CHANNEL SEARCH BEHAVIOUR OF RETAIL INVESTORS FOR INVESTMENT DECISION IN EMERGING FINANCIAL MARKETS

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 34-45
Author(s):  
Atul Shiva ◽  
Monica Sethi ◽  
Diksha Ahuja ◽  
Kritika Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Financial Markets ◽  
Mutual Funds ◽  
Mutual Fund ◽  
Word Of Mouth ◽  
Investment Decision ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Financial Advice ◽  
Effective Manner ◽  
First Choice ◽  
Word Of Mouth Communication

The purpose of this study aims at investigating the major sources of information which drives the investor’s behaviour in investment decisions in Indian Financial Markets. Diverse sources are classified into three categories, that is, financial advice, word-of-mouth communication and specialised press to investigate their effects on the investment behaviour of investors. A total of 258 investors filled a survey on a questionnaire in the National Capital Region of India by using the purposive sampling method. For analysis of data, PLS-SEM was applied on the software version 3.2.9. The key outcome of the study revealed that financial advice was considered as first choice (β = 0.265, p<0.000) to build their investment decision primarily on weekly basis followed by word-of-mouth communication (β = 0.154, p<0.05). Lastly, the mutual fund investors prefer financial newspapers and financial reports published by mutual fund regulatory body and their companies in India to do mutual funds investment. This study proposed a conceptual model in the literature of information search behaviour for mutual funds and contributes significantly to the mutual fund companies and investment agencies to market financial products in an effective manner for investors.

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